THE FARMERS' MONTHLY, APRIL, 1928 



4-H Club Members 



To Have County Camp 



The first 4-H club camp ever to be held 

 in this county is to be held at the Holyokc 

 Y. W. C. A. camp in Greenwich, June 

 26-30. 



This camp is beautifully situated on 

 Greenwich Lake about two miles from 

 Enfield and is as ideal a spot as can be 

 found in the county. 



Starting Tuesday afternoon, .June 26, 

 the club delegates will meet for four com- 

 plete days in a program of work and play 

 combined, with, perhaps, the play part 

 overshadowing the work, as one would 

 expect in a camp. The program includes 

 handicraft work for both boys and girls, 

 instruction in, music recreation program.s, 

 news story writing and of course, recrea- 

 tion such as swimming, volley ball, base- 

 ball, horse shoes and track events of dif- 

 ferent kinds. 



The membership of the camp will be 

 made up of delegates from the different 

 club.s in the county, with the clubs paying 

 the expenses of the delegates in most 

 cases. The expenses will be five dollars 

 for the four days, four dollars being foi- 

 meals and one dollar for incidental ex- 

 penses. Mrs. Ada Steele of Springfield, 

 who has been the regular cook for the Y. 

 W. C. A. Camp for four years, has been 

 engaged to do the cooking for the club 

 camp, using a menu which has been ap- 

 proved by Miss Mary Pozzi, Home De- 

 monstration Agent. 



The Camp is arranged very satis- 

 factorily for both boys and girls as mem- 

 bers. In the farm house, which is the 

 main part of the camp, there are sleeping 

 quarters enough for the girls while on a 

 hill, 150 yards in the rear of the house 

 are four "tent houses' that wall make 

 ideal sleeping quarters for the boys. 

 Competent chaperones will be with the 

 members at all times, one for each seven 

 or eight boys and girls. Miss Pozzi will 

 be camp director for the girls while H. 

 W. Eastman the club agent, will be the 

 boys director. 



Hampshire County's 

 First 4-H Club Camp 



Greenwich Lake 

 June 26-30, 1928 



Smith Academy Club 



Wins 4-H Poultry Banner 



J. ARTHUR GOULD WINS 



TRIP TO NATIONAL CAMP 



J. Arthur Gould of Ware, local leader 

 of the Ware Center 4-H Poultry Club, 

 has been awarded the chance to attend 

 the second National 4-H Club Camp held 

 at Washing-ton, D. C, -June 21-26, 1928. 



Now 17 years old, and a junior in High 

 School, Arthur is completing his sixth 

 year in the poultry club and his first as 

 a club leader. 



As can be seen by the above picture, 

 Arthur breeds Rhode Island Reds. At 

 present he has a flock of about 80 hand- 

 some pullets in his own hen house which 

 he had built in 1923. 



In 1922 Arthur first joined the poultry 

 club with several other boys who organiz- 

 ed a club in Ware Center. At the present 

 time he is the only member of that old 

 club to still be a club member. In fact, 

 for three years he was the only club mem- 

 ber in the town of Ware, carrying on the 

 work and slowly expanding each year. 



Won Trip to Camp Field 



Last fall he was fortunate enough to 

 win a free trip to Camp Field, Brockton 

 Fair, as one of the two delegates from 

 Hampshire County. Returning from this 

 camp more than ever interested in club 

 work, he, with the help of the County 

 Club Agent, organized a poultry club 

 with 14 members, one of them, Benton 

 Cummings, being a class mate in High 

 School. This club has developed, in six 

 months, to one of the best clubs in the 

 county. 



Arthur has won this honor, which is the 

 highest that any club member can win, 

 not on his record as a poultryman, good 

 as that is, but on his record as a club 



With an average production of 13.3 

 eggs per bird for the 277 birds owned by 

 the 10 boys in the club, members of the 

 Agricultural Department of Smith Aca- 

 demy carried olT the banner given for the 

 club in Hampshire County having the 

 highest average production for the month 

 of February. 



Seventy-six poultry club boys reported 

 on 71 flocks in the contest for February. 

 A total of 2,096 birds were in these flocks 

 which produced 1991 dozens of eggs or an 

 average of 11.4 eggs per bird. This is 

 the largest number of birds ever reported 

 in any month since the egg laying contest 

 started several years ago. 



The standing of the organized 4-H 

 Poultry clubs for February is as follows: 



No. No. Avg. 

 of of per 



Name of Club flocks birds bird 



Smith Academy 



Club, 10 



Manhan Club, 7 



Hatfield Grammar 



School, 14 



Smith School Club, 6 

 Ware Center Club, 12 

 Wirthmore Club, 5 

 Bondsville Club, 4 



The leaders in the individual contest 

 ai'e as follows: 



Small Flocks (5 to iO birds) 



No. No. Avg. 



Name Town birds eggs Prod. 



S. Brusco, W. H'field, 10 240 24.0 



Philip Reed, Hadley, 8 188 23.5 



J. Jackowski, H'field, 23 447 19.4 

 Ittner Brothers, So. 



Hadley Falls, 14 253 18.1 



Large Flocks (iO or more birds) 



Benton Cummings, Ware, 60 1192 19.9 



Philip Ives, Amherst, 57 1062 18.6 



Judd Brothers, Goshen, 130 2252 17.3 



Joseph Sena, East'ton, 43 696 16.2 



Charles Gocloski, H'field, 44 693 15.8 



leader. It is fairly easy to find a boy who 

 can raise a flock of chickens, successfully, 

 but it is quite another job to find one who 

 can, and will, take over the leadership of 

 a group of 14 boys and do a good job of it. 



